republicans should not try to have that fight on the debt ceiling. but we have a budgeting problem in washington where the senate can essentially just walk away from the game of doing a budget in washington. # that what's never happened and it's happened three years in a row. the only consistent way to do it is on these crisis points. >> did you find it effective? how much time does the second-term president really have to implement a domestic agenda? >> i think about six to eight months because what happens is, even lbj in '65 or fdr in '37, after the enormous landslides, the two biggest congresses in the last 100 years, they knew if they waited longer than six to eight months, members of congress would be thinking about the next re-election. that he'd almost be a lame duck in the first year of his second term. so i think the president is right to act fast. >> so do you think that president's plans will actually move the needle, change things for the middle class in the next three years? tony, job creation, minimum wage, he wants it to go up, median